Until recently, I had only seen the type R on pictures, and thought it was busy and borderline grotesque.

She’s the extremely rare cyberpunk manic pixie dreamgirl, apparently.

I hate the noise it makes every time the emblem flips up, and the unnecessary complexity they added to a simple camera.

If I know VW ‘doing it right’ will quickly devolve into “shit my rear view camera no longer works”.

This comment threw me a bit. You are editor-in-chief and you are recommending a comparison article? Like is this something you’ve wanted wanted to see on Jalopnik and just haven’t been doing until now? Cause, I’m a long-time avid reader, and I can recall like 2 out of the 10,000 or so that I’ve read.

Does it come with a manual transmission? JK, of course it doesn’t...

The game of Lava, Mustang, Crowds is a lot like Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Not all PPIs are equal. I was selling an E36 M3 with some evidence of past abuse. I was fine with it when I bought it because it drove very well, better than other E36s I’d driven. First serious prospective buyer does PPI at a specialist, and enough comes back from past collision repair that he gets scared off. Second…

For sure, you can still get screwed even with a PPI. My biggest used car loss was my ‘87 Porsche 924S. Got the PPI, no huge surprises on it, so bought the car. Fly out, drove home 350 miles. By the time I got home it was leaking everywhere it could possibly leak. Evidently it had been sitting a long, long, long time.…

Honda Element is a fair choice. My friend is a big sweaty guy, his was called “The Smell-ement”

Because if you put Porterfield pads on your brakes and the transmission goes out, the warranty shouldn’t be voidable because you used a non-standard part *somewhere* on the car. That’s the kind of crap dealerships used to pull with impunity until MM came along.

I agree, but you left out the Honda Element. It fits the bill and is wicked versatile. Plus it’s different.

A bicycle.

So I’m not crazy for thinking the GTI had a more composed and compliant ride? I drove a GTI and a FoST yesterday and couldn’t help thinking that the GTI just ate up the bumps and potholes, while I think I ran over a bug and felt it in the FoST. Could be I was really tired and sitting at a desk at work all day.

As others noted, it’s completely bent in the wrong ways. While I wasn’t able to find what materials he used for it, that car’s after photos aren’t consistent with how a cage is supposed to act.

I’ll be the first person to admit that when Obama raised admissions and CAFE standards and targets, I just knew in my heart we were back on the road to lethargic and pitifully powered automobiles.

Anyone with partial understanding of how supporting structures work and what a proper weld and cage should look like could take one look at this thing and see it was a deathtrap. A few guys in an auto related Facebook group I belong to saw this car in person several times and all confirmed the welds looked like they…

Look at these two photos and compare them to the basic figure outlined here by LeMons. He’s missing all sorts of triangulation points, most notably on the roll hoop above his head. It would take nothing for that to get super bent. Additionally, there are no spreader plates where he attached the bars, meaning a tiny…

Don’t play engineer when it comes to safety. Or at least don’t take your crayon designed race cart on public street. If its a show car leave it on a trailer.

From what I’ve seen and heard on many forums, enthusiasts are cheap as hell. The thread about “your worst automotive regrets” had a guy rolling in his bed about spending $4000 on a Miata. Come on, if $4000 is a lot for a car, you shouldn’t be wasting time browsing Jalopnik.